Suspects held over theft of crown jewels from Louvre
Paris, Oct 26: Suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre museum, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday, a week after the heist at the world’s most visited museum that stunned the world. The prosecutor said that investigators made the arrests on Saturday evening, adding that one of the men taken into custody was preparing to leave the country from Roissy Airport. French media BFM TV and Le Parisien newspaper earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and taken into custody. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau did not confirm the number of arrests and did not say whether jewels had been recovered. Thieves took less than eight minutes to steal jewels valued at 88 million euros last Sunday morning. (AP)
Russian drone attack kills 3, wounds 29 in Ukraine
KYIV, Oct 26: Russia targeted Ukraine’s capital with drones, killing three people in their homes, authorities said early Sunday. At least 29 people were wounded, seven of them children, in the second consecutive nighttime attack on Kyiv to claim civilian lives. Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said a 19-year-old woman and her 46-year-old mother were among the killed. Russian drones caused fires in two residential buildings in the capital’s Desnianskyi district. Emergency crews evacuated civilians from a nine-story and a 16-story building, put out flames and cleared the rubble. Olha Yevhenivha, 74, said there was so much smoke from the fire that she couldn’t leave her apartment. “Even until now our windows are totally black from the smoke, and it was impossible to go down, so that’s why we put wet blankets on our doors and balcony,” she said. Russia attacked Ukraine with 101 drones overnight into Sunday, according to Ukraine’s air force, of which 90 were shot down and neutralised. Five drones hit four locations, and drone debris fell on five other places, the statement said. The attack came a day after a Russian missile and drones killed four people, including two in Kyiv, prompting fresh pleas from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for Western air defence systems. (AP)
